[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH v2] net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl

[Sasha Levin]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:18:29PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 7:22 PM Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org> wrote:
>> Either way, David Miller will need to sign off on this since he manages
>> net/ -stable patches.
>
>I was unaware of different route points for stable patches, but it makes
>sense.
>
>Maybe we should add some kind of tagging
>entries to MAINTAINERS so it is clear where to route stable
>material? Right now I guess it is another one of these undocumented
>rules that one is supposed to pick up by first annoying everyone :D
>
>Are there other subsystems that have a second-level maintainer
>for stable, so I know before annoying someone else?

I really think that this is the only exception to the procees, and given
that David is only looking at the last 2 -stable releases (that would be
4.20 and 4.19 right now) it gets a bit tricky for folks who are not
intimate with the process. So no, you're not annoying anyone :)

FWIW, the process is documented here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst#n134

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Thanks,
Sasha

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